Prmepia,'} Li. rosacea. . (J. D. Hooker.) 323 



inserted oa the mouth of the calyx-tube, filaments short ; auther-C3lls often 

 unequal, separated by a broad connective. Carpel 1, sessile; style basal, 

 ascending, stigma capitate ; ovules 2, collateral, pendulous. Drape obliquely 

 ellipsoid or cylindric, with the remains of the style at its base ; epicarp thin ; 

 fitone coriaceous, smooth. Seed erect, cotyledons amygdaloid, radicle inferior. 



1. P. utUis, Roj/le III. 200, t. 33, f. 1 : Brandts For. Flor. 196 ; Wall. 



Dry rocky hills on the temperate Himalayas, alt. 4-8000 fc, from Hazara to 

 SiKKiM ascending to 9000 ft., and Bhotan; Khasia Mts., alt. 5-6000 ft. 



A shrub, 3-5 ft.; branchlets green, soft, pubescent when young; pith septate. 

 Lnm% 1-5 in., coriaceous, acuminate, entire or serrate. Flowers \ in. diam., white, 

 usually opening in autumn. Drupes ^-5 in. purple, subtended by the withered 



7. SPZRSBA, Linn. 



^ Perennial herbs or shrubs. Z^^-^yss alternate, simple or compound; stipules 

 free or adnate to the petiole, rarely 0. Flowers in axillary or terminal cymes, 

 yliite or red. Calyx persistent, lobes 4-5, imbricate or valvate in bud. Petals 

 4-5. Stamens 20-GO, filaments free or connate below. Dish flesliy, often 

 ^^iry. Carpels 5 or more, free or connate below; styles subterminal; ovules 2 

 •^r more, pendulous. Follicles 5 or more, few-seeded.— Distrib. Temperate and 

 ^m regions of the N. hemisphere ; species 50. 



Sect. L Ulmarla. Herbs. L^^aves pinuatisect. Disk obsolete. Car- 

 P^'h free ; ovules 2. 



1. S. vestita, JFalL MSS, ; lateral leaflets small or 0, terminal very 

 J^ge acutely palmately 3-5-lobed, stipules ^orbicular, cyiues proliferous, 

 ^: Kamtschatica, Wall Cat 704 (not of Pallas). S. Kamtschatica, var. 

 '^loialeasis, LindL in Bot. Reg. 1841, t. 4. 



Western temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir to Kuaiaox, alt. 7-12,000 ft. 

 ^^STRiB. Kamtschatka. 



A herb, with pereanial root, 1-1 i ft., pubescent except the leaves above. Leaves 



J^metimes hoary with thick white tomentum beneath, lateral lobes very variable, 



\^\ 1°*' sessile, ovate, acutely toothed; terminal lobe 2-6 in, diam., palmately 



-a-lobed; lobes acuminate, acutely lobulate and toothed. Cymes oblong, much 



janched, very many-flowered. Flowers white. \ in. diam. Calyx small, lobes 



in 1 '^* -P-^^^^^ oblong-orbicular. Carpels many, villous, 2-ovuled.~Very similar 



-leed to S. Kamtschatica, a plant confined to the country whose name it I»cars, and 



^lantchuria, but quite distinct by the stipules. 



^ ??CT. II. Aruncus- Dioecious herbs. i^«m*f triternately pinnate, Di^k 

 1^- Carp-h free : ovules many. 



aP>i^" "'^'^ncus, Z/«n.: Led. Fl Boss. 11. IG ; leaflets ovate caudate^ 

 _^«minate apufAnr ,l^„T.i,._.^,„,of^ .>.7oT.v^,ia nr fiiR-v beneath, stipules obsolete. 



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"« Prodr. 228. 



^ n^!^^^'"'^ ^""i Central temperate Himalaya; from Sihmohe, alt. 10,000 ft., T. 

 ' llalS"'-*'" ^''P'^^' WaUich. —DiSTRiB. From West Europe to Kamtsjhatka and 



icnnna, Japan and E. and W. N. America. 

 *ad ,« °?^^ herb, 2-4 ft., with stout perennial rootstock. Leaves with long primary 

 rath!r°°'^'^'"y petioles, petiolules short ; leaflets 1-2 in. (1-10 in. in Japan specimens) 

 ^'et membranous. Flowers dense, white, \ in. diam. Calyx-tube turbinate, lobes 



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